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No. 807,418. PATENTED DEC. l2, 1905. R. GAVANAGH.

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APPLICATION FILED DEG.15, 1904.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application led December 15, 1904:. Serial N0. 236,941.

T0 all roh/07?@ it muy concern:

Beit known that I, RAYMOND CAVANAGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at St.

- Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Box, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in boxes, and comprises more particularly a combined receptacle and pouring vessel for holding cereal foods and other substances composed of small parts and emptying the contents therefrom.

The primary object of this invention is to provide means for emptying the box with less waste and greater effectiveness.

Further objects are a receptacle having a part thereof serving as a spout, which may be folded to close said receptacle or extended for-pouring the contents out of the receptacle, and inexpensive construction.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, showing the spout extended. Fig. 2 is another perspective view showing the box closed. Fi 3 is a plan view, on a reduced scale, of the lank from which my improved receptacle is made. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail sectional views showing the spout extended and closed. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a box, showing an alternate construction; and Fig. 7 is a plan view, on a reduced scale, of the blank by which the box shown in Fig. 6 is constructed.

In the drawings the box A is a parallelepiped and made from a blank of cardboard or other suitable material, as shown in Fig. the broken lines B and cut upon the full ines to form sides 2, 3, 4, and 5 and aps 6, 7, 8, and 9 on one end C and flaps 10, 11, 12, and 1'3 on the opposite end D. A lap 14 projects over the meeting edge 15 on the side 5, and the flaps and lap after being tened by means of complete the box.

The spout E is made by cutting the iiaps 11 and 12 along the curved line 16 to form substantially a segment 17, having a shoulder 18, and the iap 13 has a segmental opening 2O nearlone corner of the box, as shown in Fig. 1. The radius of said opening is loss than the radius of the segment 17 to cause the edge 24 of the spout E when closed to overlap the curved edge 19 and rest within the outer edge of the opening flush with the surface of the box. The spout E is formed cement or otherwise to folded are suitably fas-- by folding the segment 17 along the broken line 21a. The side or floor 22 is substantially a continuation of the side 4 of the box and folds along the broken line 22a to close the opening 20, as shown in Fig. 2. The other side 21 of-the spout slides through the opening 20 and along the guiding edge 25 of the Hap 13. The shoulder 18 impinges against the inner face 23 of the end D and limits the unfolding movement of the spout.

In use the spout may be sealed to close the opening 20 by an ordinary paper seal (not shown) or other suitable means, said seal being pasted over the end of the box and the overlappin edge 24 of the spout and broken when it is desired to empty the box by running a thumb or finger nail or an instrument along said overlapping edge. After the seal is broken the spout may be unfolded, as shown in Fig. 1, and the contents of the re ceptacle poured from the spout.

In the alternate construction shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the mouth 26 of the box is rectangular in shape and the spout formed by the flap or floor 36, having two segmental sides 27 and 28, which slide into said mouth when the spout is folded. Stops 29 and 30 on the sides 27 and 28 serve to limit the unfolding movement of the spout. In Fig. 7 the blank is folded along the broken lines 31, as in the preferred construction. The end 32 of the flap 36 overlaps the edge 33 of the flap 34, and the pair of sides 27 and 28 slide into the mouth along the guiding edges 35 of the flap 34 when the spout is closed.

It is obvious to those skilled in the art that the construction of the completed device shown in the drawings from either of the blanks is simple and cheap without in any way impairing the strength or efficiency of the box. It is further obvious that the receptacle described in this application may be of any suitable shape, and while a folding box is shown and described it may be of any suitable construction and made of any suitable material. The spout may also be varied in shape and construction and made to fold or collapse otherwise than as shown without departing from the spirit of this invention, and I do not confine the claims to the exact construction specified.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined holding and pouring vessel having a plurality of overlying end flaps IIO forming a Wall thereof, said Wall having a segmental opening, a spout formed on one of the Walls of said vessel and having a segmental side and floor, said floor corresponding With said opening, having a radius greater than that of said opening, and receding flush with the surface of said box and a stop carried by the side of said spout, for the purposes specified.

2. A box having a reinforced side formed With an opening, a spout formed With a floor Which corresponds With said opening and is integral With another of the sides of said box, and a fiap which is of substantially similar shape and of the same dimensions as said floor, and a stop carried by said Hap on said spout, for the purposes specified.

3. A box having one of its end Walls fixed on the sides thereof and formed with an opening, a pair of flaps of substantially similar shape and the same dimensions forming a spout on said side, one of said fiaps corresponding With said opening, and means carried by said flaps to limit the unfolding movement of said spout.

4. A box having one of its fixed Walls reinforced and formed With an opening, the edge of said opening having a guiding-notch, a folding spout, the floor of Which corresponds With, and is adapted to lap over, an edge of said opening when closed, one of the sides of said spout adapted to slide through said notch When said spout is extended, and a stop carried by said side to limit the unfolding movement of said spout.

5. A blank for a box, cut to form overlying flaps on a Wall thereof, a segmental outlet-opening through said flaps and having a stop cut from said flaps, a segment forming a spout, the floor of Which corresponds With, and its side adapted to slide through, said opening, the edge of one of said flaps forming a guide for said side and said stop adapted to impinge against the edge of said opening when said spout is extended.

G. A box made out of a single piece of material having flaps Which overlap and form an end With an outlet-opening and a guidingnotch, means for fastening said flaps together to form a fixed Wall, and a folding spout having a floor which corresponds to lap over the inner and rest Within the outer edges of said opening 'flush With the surface of said box and having a side adapted to pass into said opening and guide through said notch.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

RAYMOND CAVANAGH.

Witnesses:

E. M. BoEsEL, F. G. BRADBURY. 

